Biden administration presses forward with border wall plans in Texas,...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "This Administration believes that effective border security requires a smarter and more comprehensive approach, including state-of-the-art border surveillance technology and modernized ports of entry, " Mayorkas said.
58% : In 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection detailed plans to build 86 miles of border wall in the Rio Grande Valley, including Starr County.
51% : Meanwhile, Republicans have pushed for more border barriers to be built, with Gov. Greg Abbott directing Texas agencies to take steps to build walls with state resources.
50% : And in the meantime, there's nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated.
48% : "Maps included in a proposal by U.S. Customs and Border Protection appear to indicate that the wall would cut through tracts of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Wildlife Refuge, a wildlife corridor that attempts to connect undisrupted habitat along the last 275 miles of the Rio Grande.Jordahl, with the Center for Biological Diversity, said the decision was "shocking and disheartening.
43% : Biden says he has no choice but to continue building the wall, and in a public filing that went into effect Thursday, his administration gave notice that it intends to waive 26 laws and regulations in order to "take immediate action" to build a few miles of new barrier in Starr County.

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